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Teacher mentoring programs - Improved professional competence and Educational Reform

Friday, November 12, 2010 | Labels: | 0 comments |

Many schools in the U.S. have formalized the mentoring process for beginning teachers as their way of incorporation of new teachers in teaching. They run teacher mentoring programs that allow a beginner to adapt to the new career in education with the help of an experienced teacher. In these programs, the experienced teacher, mentor, coaches the new teacher on several areas of education, such as how to prepare lesson plans and conduct, how students of different ages and characteristics to handle, how to more effectively teach various institutions how conflicts of class, etc. to solve.

 
Benefits for new teachers

The program not only results in better teaching skills but also to greater job satisfaction of new teachers. According to Evenson in his book on mentoring teachers, the benefits of new teachers in three ways. First, the program allows the teacher to adjust to new school environments. In addition to helping new teachers familiarize themselves with the school staff and facilities, the mentor also teaches him how to observe and to the school rules and regulations.

Second, the program allows the teacher the jurisdiction of the education establishment. This is done as the new teacher mentoring offers the opportunity to observe, assess, and practice the teachings of his and other teachers. The process encourages feedback and constant communication with the mentor.

Finally, the program allows the teacher to teaching as a profession and sustained development for life. If the new teacher believe he gets as much support as he can from his colleagues and school administration, he will probably stay in this profession and will continue to be available for both prospective teachers who need help.

 
Other program benefits

The benefits of mentoring programs are far reaching. It's not just new teachers benefit from the program, but all participants in the program including the mentor, the student and the school as a whole as well. Thus, mentoring programs have seen not only as a form of support to the teacher again, but as a vehicle for improving the entire school education system. For the mentor, the program is another opportunity for its rich experience, knowledge and skills sharing. Many of these skills and knowledge found in books or reference materials. They have over time through accumulated extensive training and professional practice. Without mentoring programs, these experiences, knowledge and skills over time may gradually fade.

Somehow, the mentor also improve himself as a teacher in the mentoring process. He did as he revisits his professional experiences within and outside the classroom and when he gives advice and guidance for new teachers. In addition, the mentoring program provides an additional source of income as mentors are usually compensated for the extra services they provide. Students are directly and indirectly benefit from this type of program that their new teachers teaching skills and knowledge that is communicated to acquire. Eventually, students will learn more things and enjoy their classes more than the teacher is prepared and well versed in the subjects he discussed.

Research conducted by Southwest Educational Development Laboratory of the mentoring programs in Texas to study shows that many districts see mentoring programs for teachers as a strategy of life support. The study acknowledges that the flow of new teachers is one of the causes of the shortage of teachers in some schools.

The concepts of coaching and mentoring

Thursday, November 11, 2010 | Labels: | 0 comments |

Leading people through the right path through life can be a challenge for anyone who is responsible to do so. A person must be the guide makes a very delicate balance to find, he or she must be strong enough to be the person behind him to chastise when the disciple is obedient or not to depart from the path on the other hand, he or she sometimes allows the enthusiast the chance of parasites, so the follower can experience and a lot wiser get. There are many things that the person has to do to the pupil or his followers to lead, and concepts of leadership among the coaching and mentoring.

The mentoring process focuses on the relationship and interaction between teacher and student, a solidarity that is more commonly known as mentor and protege. A mentor is someone who can sometimes be older, but are certainly more informed, wiser, and perhaps even more serene and settled in what could be a protégé of less predictable, less wise, and erratic. The mentor's task is to guide the inexperienced protected if the protégé learn more and more of their mentor, the protégé is more extensive in size.

The mentor-protege relationship has long existed in history, and was glorified by the media pop. There are many different mentor-protege relationships in the modern world. For example, when an employee moves from primarily a company or business, he or she is adopted by a person in the business or enterprise for a long time. As a new employee can suffer a culture shock, or perhaps unwilling to hardening of the workplace being the mentor serves as a buffer and a guide by the way society works or company making the transition easier for the protégé.
 

Also in accordance with labor relations, an existing employee shows potential as someone who could one day lead, or could move forward and much else. In this case, an experienced person in the company to take on an informal basis at the employee and his mentor. In this relationship, the mentor teaches the protégé the skills necessary to advance in the workplace, so that one day, the protégé, the mentor, the advance elsewhere in the hierarchy, or move to another society and do even better.

The concept of coaching, on the other hand, is quite different from that of mentorship. In coaching, a method employed in a leader or supervisor directs the movements of a person or group of people. In coaching, teaching and training is provided are made with a specific goal in mind. Methods of directing the movements of people and thought processes could include giving motivational talks. There are ways to train people to make them more effective, such as seminars or workshops, or practice, such as those run by sports teams.

In mentoring, the mentor teaches a protégé how to live better or how to better work. In coaching, perhaps better viewed as a more specific method of mentoring, the coach leads his team in order to be their final goal. For coaches, it means winning a game. For coaches of marriage, it means that a strong marriage relationship. For coaches of the family, it means that a stronger link family, between parents and children, and sometimes, between the children themselves. There are many types of mentoring and coaching, and various techniques related to each other. For more information, please talk with mentors and professional coaches, or do more research online.

The concept behind Christian Youth Mentoring

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The process of orientation and mentoring people is a very delicate: Mentors must be able to make their protégés to grow and out of their shells, but they need a balance between directing the movements of their followers, and so this Fledglings time the power of their wings and fly to get their own will. This form of mentoring is Christian mentoring, in which a Christian provides a protege who may or may not be a Christian, but who will benefit from the strength and wisdom of senior or more experienced.

Such a mentoring relationship, at least in the Christian sense is that between a pastor and his junior. The former will lead young people the voice of God speak, and bring a sense of unity and Christian goodness to a flock. Another mentoring relationship as a Christian, between parents and children, where Christian parents to guide their children on the path of Christian life. Christian mentoring, therefore, the shift down and the sharing of knowledge and wisdom of someone who is an expert in a field and with the provisions and principles of Christianity is the mentor and protege to train.

In general, would Christian mentoring programs help people guide those who are younger than their Christian life. Some mentoring programs even drive would be or aspiring mentors two things at the start: a good mentor knowledge transfer and get a mentor who aspire to start living a good and Christian doctrine, and around the same time, a protégé who might benefit from your teaching and wisdom further down the line. Once these two people are identified, called a mentor or trainee is called to as creative as possible in meeting such people. These meetings can be as simple as calling at someone's house, meeting over coffee or dinner together.


Another way for the mentor and protégé to meet through a shared hobby. Such a hobby might include running, biking, writing poetry, books, or even kitchen. Despite the image of the intense and sometimes alienating spirituality attached to Christian mentoring, many Christian mentoring programs are actually more about building a stronger relationship between mentor and protégé. The shared hobby may actually be a simple beginning: many mentors will share tasks with their protégés, such as small jobs in his office, training the protégé in various tasks, or just listen to the call protection.

What makes Christian mentoring unique, however, the emphasis on things that otherwise seem vulnerable in the secular field. For instance, mentors and mentees needed to listen carefully to each other and to avoid speaking of yourself as much as possible to learn more. Second, mentors and protégés should be a true and sincere to each other as possible. Honesty is definitely the best policy in Christian mentoring, and if the protégé is depressed, awkward, unwanted, or just a bad mood, he or she is encouraged to talk with her mentor and humbly ask for advice.

There are many different kinds of Christian mentoring programs there. If you need more information, talk to your local Christian pastor, or search the Internet. Many mentoring programs as their own websites and mailing lists that make it easier for you to read about their work and writing in their program.

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